(De)construyendo ilusiones. Cambios intergeneracionales y de género en las aspiraciones educativas y ocupacionales en las zonas rurales de Ayacucho

To make a wish. Educational and occupational aspirations in two generations of rural children, in Ayacucho (Peru) This paper presents a genealogy of educational and occupational aspirations, based on the desires of two generations of rural children of Ayacucho. Taking the region’s recent turbulent a...

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Autor: Mena Portocarrero, Magrith
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Perú
Recursos:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/3933
Acesso em linha:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/debatesensociologia/article/view/3933
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Aspirations
Generation
Gender
Education
Power relations
Aspiraciones
Generación
Genero
Educación
Relaciones de poder
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Resumo:To make a wish. Educational and occupational aspirations in two generations of rural children, in Ayacucho (Peru) This paper presents a genealogy of educational and occupational aspirations, based on the desires of two generations of rural children of Ayacucho. Taking the region’s recent turbulent and violent history into account, and other recent structural social changes, the research shows how the aspirations change between both generations, paying special attention to gender differences. Terciary education becomes the most wanted future, while peasant activities almost disappear from desired future lives; in addition, in poorer households girls keep higher aspirations than their male peers. Despite all this, hard evidence shows that tertiary education is rarely reached in Ayacucho, and women still have less opportunity to access and finish secondary and tertiary education. Therefore, this genealogy of desires not only should be seen as a social construction, but also as an expression of voice and agency, where social hierarchies are questioned.